Börje Fredriksson was a Swedish

Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

 jazz

Jazz

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 tenor saxophonist. During his short career he had a major influence on the development of modern jazz in Sweden.

Fredriksson was born in Eskilstuna

Eskilstuna

Eskilstuna is a city and the seat of Eskilstuna Municipality, Södermanland County, Sweden with 60,185 inhabitants in 2005. Eskilstuna has a large Sweden Finn population....

, Sweden. He played at the beginning of the 1960s in a quartet with Bobo Stenson

Bobo Stenson

Bo Gustav Stenson is a Swedish jazz pianist. Stenson was noted as early as 1963, when he stepped up from the local scene in Västerås to start playing frequently in Stockholm, where he accompanied a long line of visiting American players including Sonny Rollins, Stan Getz and Gary Burton...

 (piano), Palle Danielsson

Palle Danielsson

Palle Danielsson is a Swedish jazz double bassist born in Stockholm, Sweden, perhaps most notable for his work done with Keith Jarrett from 1974 to 1979, becoming a member of his European quartet for that period.-Career:...

 (bass) and Fredrik Norén (drums), as well as in groups with Eje Thelin

Eje Thelin

Eje Thelin was an innovative Swedish trombonist, widely admired among fellow trombonists for his facile technique and rhythmic intensity...

 and Bernt Rosengren

Bernt Rosengren

Bernt Rosengren is a Swedish jazz tenor saxophonist. His recordings have earned him five Gyllene Skivan awards in Sweden.-Biography:...

. He played with the guitarist Rune Gustaffson in 1961 and with Bosse Broberg's quartet in 1962 at the Golden Circle Jazz Club in Stockholm

Stockholm

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. He recorded Intervall, (Columbia 1966), together with the posthumous, self titled Börje Fredriksson, (EMI/Odeon, 1969). In 1968 he committed suicide

Suicide

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Fredriksson's sheet music was left in the hands of Bobo Stenson, and in 1994 he, Danielsson and Norén reconvened with saxophonist Joakim Milder, and released an album of Fredriksson's music entitled Sister Maj's Blouse. A follow-up, Epilogue, appeared in 1998 with the same ensemble.